Nawalpur (, ne, नवलपुर, ) or (Nawalparasi east of Bardaghat Susta) is a district located in

Gandaki Province Gandaki Province ( ne, गण्डकी प्रदेश ) ), is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borde ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

. It is 1 out of 11 districts of Gandaki Province. The headquarter of the district is Kawasoti. Formally Nawalpur District was part of

Nawalparasi District Nawalparasi District ( ne, नवलपरासी जिल्ला, ), part of which belongs to Gandaki Province and part to Lumbini Province, was one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal before being divided into Nawalparasi (West of Ba ...

, which split into two districts Nawalpur District and

Parasi District Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta) district or Nawalparasi West, as known commonly ( ne, नवलपरासी (बर्दघाट सुस्ता पश्चिम) वा नवलपरासी पश्चिम ), also frequent ...

after the state's reconstruction of administrative divisions as of 20 September 2015. The total area of Nawalpur District is and total population of this district as of 2011 Nepal census is 310864 individuals.

History

During

Rana regime Rana dynasty ( ne, राणा वंश, IAST=Rāṇā vaṃśa , ) is a Chhetri dynasty that imposed totalitarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making Prime Minister and other ...

, Nawalpur district was a sub-district of Chitwan District then it established separately and again merged with a small portion (Parasi) of Butwal District and established

. In 2015 again Nawalpur District was again separately reestablished.

Divisions

The district is divided into 8 local level body in which 4 are urban municipality and 4 are rural municipality.

Urban municipality

* Kawasoti (Headquarter) *

Gaindakot Gaindakot (, ; sometimes spelled Gaidakot) is a municipality in Nawalpur District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It became a municipality in May 2014 by merging the existing Mukundapur, Amarapuri, and Gaindakot VDCs. It was again exp ...

Devachuli Devchuli is a municipality in Nawalpur District in the southern part of Gandaki Province in Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 42,603 people living in 916 individual households.Bishal Adhikari is a citizen of Devch ...

* Madhyabindu

Rural municipality

* Baudikali * Bulingtar * Binayi Tribeni *

Hupsekot Hupsekot was a VDC in the former Nawalparasi District which was a part of the former Lumbini Zone of the Western Development Region of Nepal. Total population of Hupsekot VDC in 2011 was 3,681 individuals with 552 households In 2017 Government ...

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 census, Nawalpur district had a population of 310,864. Magar are the largest ethnic group with 29.11% of the population, while Hill Brahmin are the second-largest with 23.79%. Tharu are 11.80%,

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ne, क्षेत्री ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali speakers of Khas community, some of whom trace their origin to migration from ...

7.66%,

Kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...

5.44%, Kumal 3.91%,

Gurung Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung: ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurung people predominantly live around the Annapurna region in Manang, Mustang, Dolpo, Kaski, Lamjung, Go ...

2.93%, Newar 2.87%,

Damai Damai ( ne, दमाइँ) is an occupational caste found among Khas people. They comprise 45 subgroups. Their surnames take after the subgroup they belong to. People belonging to this caste are traditionally tailors and musicians. They are ade ...

2.49%,

Thakuri Thakuri ( ne, ठकुरी) is a sub-caste of Khasas tribes in Nepal. It consists of the historical ruling class, and is made up of the descendants of the Great Khasa Malla kingdom rulers of the Baisi and Chaubisi principalities. The former ...

1.75%, and

Tamang The Tamang (; Devanagari: तामाङ; ''tāmāṅ'') are an Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group of Nepal. In Nepal Tamang/Moormi people constitute 5.6% of the Nepalese population at over 1.3 million in 2001, increasing to 1,539,830 as of the 2011 ...

1.39%. Of these, 55.29% spoke Nepali, 25.15% Magar, 10.95% Tharu, 1.92%

, 1.62% Newari, 1.25% Bhojpuri and 0.82%

as their first language.

References

External links

MoFALD

DCC Nawalparasi
Districts of Nepal established during Rana regime or before Gandaki Province Districts of Nepal established in 2015 {{Gandaki-geo-stub